Articles for Month: July 2005

LONDON, July 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite previous admissions that cloning human beings is a near-impossibility, Professor Ian Wilmut is moving forward in his plans to create cloned humans for use as research subjects. Wilmut, who made his name as the creator of Dolly the first cloned sheep to survive to adulthood, has asked the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for permission to advertise for women do donate their ova for use in the experiments. One part of the tangle of ethical objections to human cloning is the dismal rate of failure of the individual attempts to produce a viable […]

VATICAN, July 26, 2005 (CWNews.com /LifeSiteNews.com) – Although the Pontifical Academy for Life has strongly condemned the development of vaccines from fetal tissues, the president of that Academy notes that parents may still be justified in having their children inoculated with such vaccines. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, in a July 23 interview with Vatican Radio, clarified the position taken by the Pontifical Academy for Life, in response to an inquiry from an American pro-life group. The bishop said that pharmaceutical manufacturers have a grave moral obligation to provide vaccines that do not use fetal tissues. But parents whose children may risk […]

SYDNEY, July 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Following on a highly successful program to offer financial assistance to mother’s in crisis pregnancies who opt to carry their babies to term, the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney announced yesterday a grant of $100,000 to support and foster research on the therapeutic potential of adult stem cells. This is the second grant made available by the Archdiocese of Sydney to further research into adult stem cells. On 9 April 2002 Cardinal Pell announced that a $50,000 grant was to be made available to a research team at Griffith University led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, […]

CALGARY, Alberta, July 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although Alberta has begrudgingly conceded that it will issue same-sex “marriage” certificates in accordance with the newly passed federal Civil Marriage Act, the Alberta government has assured its marriage commissioners that they will not be forced to act against their consciences. This is a serious problem in most other provinces that have no such protections for those who oppose same-sex “marriage”. The newly passed federal legislation itself contains no such protection and counselors in most provinces can be fired from their jobs for refusing to perform gay “marriages”. Even before the federal legislation […]

By John Jalsevac for LifeSiteNews.com

Tories promise to fight same-sex marriage law in electionhttps://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/july/25/legislation/&c=1 UNFPA demands abortion for girls as young as 10 https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38577 Gay pride marchers outnumbered by Protestors in Latviahttps://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050723-21421700-bc-latvia-gaymarch.xml Health officials puzzle over abortion pill deathshttps://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3279764 Non-Religious Kids Find Refuge in ‘Godless’ Anti-Christian Camp https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Business/story?id=971881&page=1 Australians condemn ‘mad’ plans for gay adoption https://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nats-condemn-mad-plans-for-gay-adoption/2005/07/23/1121539192261.html Foreign Affairs warns gay spouses to be aware of laws when travellinghttps://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=b31f489f-06d7-4adf-9e8e-a2e16de6d55b Catch 22 for gay clergy in new church sex code https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1707926,00.html Same-sex marriage on rise in Belgiumhttps://www.washtimes.com/upi/20050725-085739-1422r.htm Abortion & Justice: Let’s hope John Roberts is a genuine moderatehttps://www.nationalreview.com/whelan/whelan200507220823.asp Borking has met its match in Roberts nominationhttps://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200507220829.asp Rick […]

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI, July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prince Edward Island, one of the few provinces and territories of Canada in which activist court decisions didn’t legalize same-sex “marriage” before the Senate passed Bill C-38 earlier this month, has indicated that it will not immediately begin issuing same-sex “marriage” certificates. Mildred Dover, the province’s attorney general, has said that the province will delay issuing certificates to same-sex couples until they have had the opportunity to amend all the state laws pertaining to marriage. That process could take up several months; it is also unclear what would happen if the provincial legislature […]

PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Francis Cardinal Arinze, the Vatican’s chief over the administration of the sacraments, the denial of Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians is a no-brainer. Speaking at a dinner in Pittsburgh over the weekend, Arinze responded with his usual wit to the question, “Should Catholic legislators who support legal abortion ‘be refused’ Communion?” The Cardinal elicited laughter when he rejoined, “I ask you, do you really need a cardinal from the Vatican to find the answer?” He quipped, “Are there no children from First Communion to whom you can pose the question and receive […]

OTTAWA, July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - From far and near, from left and right, from Catholics and non-Catholics the actions and non-actions of the Canadian Catholic hierarchy toward Canadian Catholic politicians is coming under fire. The recent passage of the same-sex ‘marriage’ law in Canada with the votes of a majority of Catholic politicians, and at the behest of a Catholic Prime Minister has focussed attention in Canada on renegade Catholicism rampant in politics and seemingly unchecked by the majority of Canada’s bishops. Of the well over 50 Catholic MPs and Senators who voted in favour of homosexual ‘marriage’ despite […]

CALGARY, July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It has been said that the right to freedom of expression is the right to give offense. This axiom of political philosophy is being tested in Alberta. Bishop Fred Henry, prior to the first “Conciliation Session” of his Human Rights Tribunal case, in which he is being accused of ‘discrimination’ for having publicly asserted Catholic doctrine on homosexuality, has been defended from a most unlikely source. The president of the Alberta Civil Liberties Association, Stephen Jenuth, says the case is an example of conflicting rights. He told the Calgary Sun, “We have a situation […]